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During the Northern Hemisphere's winter, a summer of a sort comes to the great white continent of Antarctica, bringing 24-hour-a-day sunshine and a brief, spongy softening of the coastal pack ice. That cold and flowerless southern summer is the season when dedicated men arrive by ship or plane to extend man's scanty knowledge-and tenuous possession-of the earth's most inhospitable region...
Last week two shipborne expeditions prowled among the antarctic icebergs. In the Amundsen Sea, east of Little America, the 6,500-ton U.S. Navy icebreaker Atka, with 250 men aboard, headed south, battering its way through pack ice in search of a harbor along the continental shore...
Muscular Morale. For all their defensive excellence, the Dons this year also pack an offensive wallop. Much of its muscle is hidden in the skinny (6 ft. 10 in., 210 Ibs.) frame of Bill Russell, 20, a happy-go-lucky Oakland Negro. A tireless, ambidextrous string bean, Russell is the Dons' high scorer (more than 300 points), but he still prefers Woolpert's style of defensive play. "Heck," he says, "I'd rather block a shot any day than score. It seems to do more for team morale." It also does something to the opposition...
Discounting the Discount. Though the discounts looked like a windfall to the buyer, they were not always what they seemed. Many a dealer admitted privately that he added a "pack" to delivered prices, i.e., tacked on an extra $100 or so to allow more room for the discounts his customers expected. Moreover, the list sales prices also often included high-profit (up to 50%) accessories, e.g., air-conditioning or power-operated windows...
...wraparound windshields, and a new electrically controlled torsion-bar suspension that takes most of the bumps out of rough roads. The eight restyled models come in 17 single-tone colors and 36 two-tone combinations. Still to be shown: Packard's super convertible Caribbean, which will pack the most horsepower (275) of any standard model on the road...